12 - Meloni, Maurizio, The social brain meets the reactive genome: neuroscience, epigenetics and the new social biology, Front. Hum. Neurosci., 21 May (2014).Our main problem is that politicians mistrust what they do not understand. Now if lobbyists from the pharma do not want to help them understand, then there is little hope for primal prevention to be promoted by state authorities.

18 - Lanchester, John, How to speak money, Faber & Faber, (2014), p. 55: As Mrs. Thatcher once spelt it out, «economies need winners, but this kind of economy [i.e., the neo-liberal economy] needs losers too: they are what give the winners their fire and fuel and fear» (my italics).

21- Hewlett, Sylvia Ann, Child Neglect in Rich Nations, United Nations Children's Fund, 3 UN Plaza, DH-49B, New York, N.Y. 10017 (1993). This report describes «how and why some of the wealthiest nations on earth have short-changed children» (i.e., these have been treated unfairly by withholding what is most valuable for their future, that is, among other things, sustained attention and a secure, affective presence over their primal period of life).

22 - Such is the hypothesis presented here to explain the stunning correlation revealed by Wilkinson & Pickett's social-epidemiology studies [02]. Also, see the official trailer of the film IN UTERO (https://vimeo.com/128029155).

23 - Chomsky, Noam, On Anarchism, Penguin Special, p. 108 (2013).

24 - Pizzigati, Sam, The Rich Don’t Always Win: The Forgotten Triumph Over Plutocracy that Created the American Middle Class, 1900-1970, Seven Stories Press, New York (2012).

25 - Quinn, Daniel, My Ishmael: a Sequel, Hodder & Stoughton (1997).

26 - Rapoport, Miles & Wheary, Jennifer, Running in Place: Where the Middle Class and The Poor Meet, Dēmos, an Equal Say and an Equal Chance for All, Northwest Area Foundation (2013).

30- Chinet, Auguste E., author of this essay, is an MD who devoted most of his professional life to research and teaching in physiology (universities of Fribourg, CH, SUNY at Buffalo, USA, and Geneva, CH). Over the last twenty years, in parallel to his clinical activity in the domain of primal therapy (www.therapieprimale.org), he’s followed the developments of various branches of physiology including molecular biology (more particularly epigenetics). He's still astonished of how medical and political authorities, as the public in general, have remained ignorant of the lessons not-so-new fundamental biology teaches us.

31- Murphy Paul, Annie, Origins: How the Nine Months Before Birth Shape the Rest of our Lives, Hay House (2010).

32 - Csoka, Antonei B. and Szyf, Moshe, Epigenetic Side-Effects of Common Pharmaceuticals: a Potential New Field in Medicine and Pharmacology, Med Hypotheses, 73/5 (2009).

Liedloff, Jean, The Continuum Concept: In search of Lost Happiness, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company (1985).

39 - McGinn, Kathleen, Ruiz Castro, Mayra, Long Lingo, Elizabeth, Mums the Word! Cross-national Relationship between Maternal Employment and Gender Inequalities at Work and at Home, Harvard Business School Working Paper Series (2016).

40 - Odent, Michel, Primal Health:Understanding the Critical Period Between Conception and the First Birthday, Clairview (2002). See also: Primal Health Research Databank, an ongoing compilation of epidemiological studies exploring correlations between the Primal Period and lifetime health (by keywords at: ﻿www.primalhealthresearch.com/contact.php).

41- Quinn, Daniel, Ishmael, Bantam Books (1992). N.B.: About the biblical story of the sacrifice of fruits and vegetables by Cain – which was not well received by the divinity – as opposed to that of lambs and their fat by Abel – which was well received by the divinity, the author suggests it may’ve had its origin long before the writing of the biblical version. That might explain why exegetes, for want of the modern writer’s intuition, failed to fully comprehend God’s preferen

42 - Chomsky, Noam, Rogue States: The Rule of Force in World Affairs, Pluto Press, London (2000). N.B.: Just like states are meant by transcontinental corporations to be subordinated to them, «persons of flesh and blood» are also meant to be subordinated to these private tyrannies Chomsky named «huge immortal persons».

49 - Wolf, Christa, Ici même, autre part : Récits et autres textes, 1994-1998, traduits de l’allemand, Fayard (2000). N.B.: In this final paragraph, the author also wonders whether these unlimited desires aren’t at the origin of the cleavage that forces us to educate our children …«half like big game, half in an ethical perspective» as Ingeborg Bachmann once said.

51- Herzlinger, Regina, keynote at the 8th Annual Health Care Conference, Washington Policy Center (2010). N.B.: ‘Regi’, one of the “100 most powerful people in healthcare” said that, contrary to physics, «medicine has almost no [preoccupation to establish a] relation between cause and effect»; therefore «Health care is a profoundly bad value for money».

54 - www.birthworks.org. This site aims at helping women trust their own organism’s physiological processes governing child birth from time immemorial.

55 - Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted and proclaimed by the General Assembly of the United Nations on December 10 (1948). N.B.: Article 29 (1), in particular, subtly states that “Everyone has duties to the community in which alone the free and full development of his personality is possible”. Doesn’t this imply that everyone must make sure any new knowledge be accessible to all?

63 - Kasparov, Garry (with Greengard, Mig), Winter is Coming: Why Vladimir Putin and The Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped, Atlantic Books, London (2015).

64 - Editorial, Mental health and the mother, The Lancet, May 26, 1165-1166 (1951). Commenting on John Bowlby's early reports from extensive observations of the child's primary tie to mother, at a time when Bowlby himself said that "knowledge of truth is always partial, and to await certainty is to await eternity", the editor of The Lancet added that "in this case, to await certainty may well be to await a spreading of our present social sickness until it is beyond all cure"! Even thirty-one years later, in 1982, Bowlby admitted that "a comprehensive theoretical apparatus" was still missing to explain long-term consequences of a child's lack of primal care. But today's epigenetic knowledge undoubtedly provides us with this very comprehensive theoretical apparatus.